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Metamorphosis

What if Kafka had been hip? Eli Valley’s latest comic delves into the world of cool Jews in the Habsburg Empire, circa 1903.

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Eli Valley is finishing his first novel. His column, “Comics Rescued From a Burning Synagogue in Bialystok and Hidden in a Salt Mine Until After the War,” appears monthly in the Forward. His Web site is www.evcomics.com.

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